Work has already begun on compiling the nominees for the 2005 BBYA list. So far there are twelve titles on the list, but only a couple I'm excited about. The book I'm most excited about is Alex Flinn's Nothing to Lose(coming in April):

I shouldn't have come back to Miami…I've been escaping cops' notice for a year now-the year since I ran away. I'm no longer Michael Daye, high school athlete with a promising future. Now I look like someone with no future. I look like a carny.

A year ago, Michael's life seemed pretty good, at least from a distance. But look closer, and he was a guy on the edge, his stepfather's violent rages making his world spin out of control. Then, Michael met Kirstie, who offered an escape - a traveling carnival with a "no questions asked" policy. He grabbed it, leaving his old life and his mother behind.

This year, Michael is back in Miami, and his mother is charged with murdering his stepfather. As the day of her trial nears, Michael wonders how much longer he can hide from his past…and his future.

The other nominated titles are:
Sign of the Qin by L. G. Bass (coming in April)
Doing It by Melvin Burgess (coming in June)
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong To Get Ahead by David Callahan
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (coming in March)
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen (coming in May)
Me and Orson Wells by Robert Kaplow
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan (coming in August)
When We Were Saints by Han Nolan
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin (coming in March)

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